New World, New Spaces

@steve_collis
www.happysteve.com


The metaphor of 'space', the internet as the Wild Wild Web.

Online space as information rich, making the teacher...? Redundant?
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Online space as a 'stage', students as publishers.
Start at www.realaudienceproject.com and click on the links to visit our specific grassroots publishing spaces.
- be sure to include http://nbcsnews.wordpress.com/ (17,000 visitors),
- http://learningin10.wordpress.com/ (7 year olds writing war poetry),
- http://stores.lulu.com/realaudienceproject (Print books by students. You can buy them online and they arrive in the post!),
- and http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/booraliefm/id389724084 - our online radio station / podcast.

Resources for teachers on these projects: http://realaudienceproject.wikispaces.com
...how is this a game changer?


3D Virtual Spaces:

YouTube Tour of our original virtual island.
We now run a second island with 'Open Sim', and are currently inducting Primary students as leaders.
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Physical Spaces:
The Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning, which has no 'front', but lots of nooks,
and accommodates 100 students with 4 teachers working as troubleshooters. The students
select their own path through the curriculum.
Visit the almost replica of the building in Jokaydia
Contact learn@scil.nsw.edu.au to organise a visit.

7 Spaces of technology in the school environment – Ewan McIntosh http://vimeo.com/15774119

...how is this a game changer?



Spaces have possibilities and constraints.


Spaces come with baggage.


A space’s baggage is overwhelming.


New spaces let you reset the baggage.
Recruit, empower, celebrate.